Application of a computerized medical decision-making process to the problem of digoxin intoxication.

Abstract:

:A computerized medical decision-making system was used to monitor signs and predisposing factors of digoxin intoxication in patients receiving digoxin. This process automatically reviewed the patient's data base nightly for drug interactions, laboratory data and electrocardiographic findings with known association with digoxin intoxication. These decisions were formated into a "digoxin alert report" and sent to line printers in the nursing division to be placed on the individual patients' charts. To assess the effect of these reports on patient management, a randomized double-blind study was undertaken. Patients were assigned to an alert or nonalert group. Alert reports were withheld from charts of patients in the nonalert group. A medical record review was subsequently carried out, wherein the physician's orders were searched to identify actions taken with possible relation to the digoxin alerts. The computer monitored 396 patients over a 3 month period. Of these, 211 (53%) were randomized to the alert group and 185 (47%) to the nonalert group. Seventy-two percent of patients received at least one alert. The most frequently occurring alerts included: hypoxemia, hypokalemia, concurrent use of a beta-adrenergic blocking agent, renal insufficiency and ventricular arrhythmia. Results from the record review demonstrated a 22% increase in physician actions for the alert group. Specifically, patients in the alert group were 2.7 times more likely to have a serum digoxin determination ordered and 2.8 times more likely to have digoxin withheld on the day of a digoxin alert than were patients in the nonalert group.

journal_name

J Am Coll Cardiol

authors

White KS,Lindsay A,Pryor TA,Brown WF,Walsh K

doi

10.1016/s0735-1097(84)80104-7

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-09-01 00:00:00

pages

571-6

issue

3

eissn

0735-1097

issn

1558-3597

pii

S0735-1097(84)80104-7

journal_volume

4

pub_type

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